Arrived a little earlier today than normal; around 3;45 pm which is good. at our destination. One of the team riders had a flat tyre and we changed the tyre, and then it immediately it went flat again with another puncture as the tyre had two sharp bits of metal in the tyre that got thru to the tube.
Took a while to fix, so then we went into Peloton mode for last 25km into Nantwich, which was fun to catch the other up.
Below is the Hotel we are staying in at Nantwich . Built in 1585. I am on the first floor and the floors slope around a little, so like walking a little drunk, but great staff and rooms have everything we need. Especially a good shower and comfortable bed.
Our accommodation in Nantwich is an old Tudor building
My shower took 8 minutes to warm up but they warn you about this as it's a heritage listed building and must be difficult to plumb and they ask for for forgiveness which is easy.
Above is on the wall in a relatively modern refurbished bathroom. Hotel makes up for it with great character charm, and great management. I love it.
On of the hotel team lifted our bike up to the first floor for storage, which we all were very grateful for.
Listening to the weather forecast on the TV and the rain is coming. Can see also on my weather app "windy" as well. Hopefully won't be too cold that all I hope. Nick from our team lives in Scotland and where they live they have had 7 days of snow in the last week !. That last happened in around 1970 at this time of year, so weather is a bit odd at the moment. Longest day is virtually on when we arrive near the top of Scotland (23 June) so could be light till midnight ?.
Definitely making progress north now and we are Stoke on Trent and Birmingham so definitely moving north.
Had dinner tonight with Alan Little who owns cycle Britian. Alan came to NZ in the summer and did the TA so we had lots to talk about. He talked about possibly doing the tour Divide next year which my friend Martin Grethe is doing again this year literally on the plane over s we speak. Martin did in 2022 as well . This a ride that goes thru US from Canada down to the Mexican border and cri-crosses the Rockies. 4500km of punishment. We actually pass by Alans home today, so are stopping for lunch at his house and then he cycling with us up to Wigan.
Will add to this blog for today after dinner. I am HUNGRY !
The route we did today -had much less Km climbing than we have done, However we are finding that the software that predicts our daily ascents is consistently way short of what we actually do. As much as 200 or 300 m short of ascents we actually do, which is a lot. For those who don't know about ascents. Its about Metre climbed and Kaiti hill for example, is 130m of ascent. So we are two and possibly 3 Kaiti hills short in predictions of what we actually do each day. That's quite a lot. makes for us old ones to chat about !
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